image
1. an iconic mental representation (Freq. 31)
- her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
• Syn:
mental image
• Hypernyms:
representation, mental representation, internal representation
• Hyponyms:
imagination image, thought-image, memory image, visual image, visualization,
visualisation, mental picture, picture, impression, auditory image
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world (Freq. 9)
- a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
• Syn:
persona
• Derivationally related forms:
personify (for: persona)
• Topics:
Jung, Carl Jung, Carl Gustav Jung, psychology, psychological science
• Hypernyms:
appearance, visual aspect
3. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface (Freq. 8)
- they showed us the pictures of their wedding
- a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
• Syn:
picture, icon, ikon
• Derivationally related forms:
iconic (for: icon), pictural (for: picture), picture (for: picture), depict (for: picture)
• Hypernyms:
representation
• Hyponyms:
bitmap, electronic image, chiaroscuro, collage, montage,
foil, transparency, graphic, computer graphic, iconography, inset,
likeness, semblance, panorama, cyclorama, diorama, reflection,
reflexion, scan, CAT scan, sonogram, echogram
4. a standard or typical example (Freq. 2)
- he is the prototype of good breeding
- he provided America with an image of the good father
• Syn:
prototype, paradigm, epitome
• Derivationally related forms:
epitomize (for: epitome), epitomise (for: epitome), paradigmatic (for: paradigm), prototypic (for: prototype), prototypical (for: prototype), prototypal (for: prototype)
• Hypernyms:
model, example
• Hyponyms:
concentrate, imago
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
trope, figure of speech, figure
• Derivationally related forms:
tropical (for: trope)
• Members of this Usage Domain:
cakewalk, blind alley, blockbuster, megahit, smash hit,
sleeper, bell ringer, bull's eye, mark, home run, housecleaning,
goldbrick, lens, domino effect, flip side, period, summer,
dawn, evening, rainy day
• Hypernyms:
rhetorical device
• Hyponyms:
conceit, irony, hyperbole, exaggeration, kenning,
metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile,
synecdoche, zeugma
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- he could be Gingrich's double
- she's the very image of her mother
• Syn:
double, look-alike
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
• Hyponyms:
ringer, dead ringer, clone
7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers
• Syn:
range, range of a function
• Derivationally related forms:
range (for: range)
• Topics:
mathematics, math, maths
• Hypernyms:
set
8. the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry
- the company tried to project an altruistic image
• Hypernyms:
impression, effect
9. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
- the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
• Syn:
effigy, simulacrum
• Hypernyms:
representation
• Hyponyms:
Guy, idol, graven image, god, scarecrow,
straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer, waxwork, wax figure
1. render visible, as by means of MRI
• Hypernyms:
visualize, visualise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. imagine;
conceive of;
see in one's mind
- I can't see him on horseback!
- I can see what will happen
- I can see a risk in this strategy
• Syn:
visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy,
see, figure, picture
• Derivationally related forms:
imaging, imagery, picture (for: picture), picturing (for: picture), figuration (for: figure), seer (for: see), fancy (for: fancy), envisioning (for: envision), visualization (for: visualize), visualizer (for: visualize)
• Hypernyms:
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
• Verb Group:
understand, realize, realise, see, visualize, visualise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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